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I’ve spent lockdown helping at a food bank reveals Cameron

- By Deputy Political Editor

DAVID Cameron has said he spent lockdown volunteeri­ng at a food bank and cooking for his family.

The ex- Tory prime minister said while his wife Samantha was trying to save her fashion business Cefinn he held the fort at home and volunteere­d for a couple of days a week.

He told Times Radio yesterday: “My wife was battling hard to save and promote her fashion business, I was working less than that.

“So I cooked all the meals. I do my best to keep the place provisione­d, a bit of home schooling, but that wasn’t my strong point.

Red- faced

“And I worked for the Chipping Norton Food Bank one or two days a week, which was great to do something to help people who were really isolated and stuck at home.”

Mr Cameron, 53, who promoting the paperback publicatio­n of his book For The Record, also admitted he was left red- faced by the memoir from Sasha Swire a member of his trusted circle.

Lady Swire’s blistering journal of political feuds and friendship­s during Mr Cameron’s premiershi­p includes a claim he joked her was

perfume made him want to push her into the bushes and “give you one”. The wife of the former Tory MP Sir Hugo Swire said Mr Cameron “talks a lot about sex” and suggested he is

typical of a type of Englishman who becomes “lewd” because they “no longer know how to flirt”.

Diary Of An MP’s Wife also includes unflatteri­ng stories about major figures including George Osborne, Michael Gove and his wife Sarah Vine, as well as Boris Johnson.

Asked about the bushes sex claim,

Mr Cameron said: “I don’t recall that conversati­on. Of course it’s kind of... it’s embarrassi­ng when you have things you say in private and do in private sort of splashed all over the place and of course you’d rather that didn’t happen.

“I suppose the truth is that if you want respect for your privacy

and people not questionin­g your character and private life and all the rest of it, then politics probably isn’t the career for you.”

In a swipe at Mr Johnson, he said he “didn’t fear the tall poppies” during his premiershi­p and US President Donald Trump “drives him mad” a lot of the time.

 ?? Pictures: GETTY, HYDE NEWS AND REX ?? Holding the fort at home... former prime minister David Cameron and wife Samantha and, right, delivering food parcels during lockdown
Pictures: GETTY, HYDE NEWS AND REX Holding the fort at home... former prime minister David Cameron and wife Samantha and, right, delivering food parcels during lockdown
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Diary... Lady Swire

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